The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-01-12

Turkeys are profitable birds to raise,
for they arc marketable. to some extent,
at fair prices throughout the year.
Manure from the hen-house is the best
fertilizer usually produced on the farm
equal to much of the commercial guano.
Using V-shaped trough, with slaked
lime in the bottom, for hog feeding, Is
said to keep off cholera from the pork
ers.
Put YOUR brein into this winters dairy
management aud see if you cannot make
it the best dairy winter in your expe-
rience.
The farmer who gets the most eggs is
the one who gets up earliest and secures
to his flock good, VAIN breakfast by
daylight.
In the matter of raising crops cheaply,
it is safe to lay down the principle that
large crops cost less to the acre than
small ones.
In foddering milch cows mix fine feed
and coarse fodder together by giving q
foddering of one kind and the next fod-
dering of another.
Ashes are best for recuperating moss
grown pastures, but bone may be profit
ably employed where the pastures have
foir sod and good stand of grass.
Brood sows, with litters of pigs, re.
quire plenty of pure water to drink. with
sloppy food, grass or cut hay steamed
with shorts -middlings-twice day.
Many farmers swamp themselves by
hiring more labor than they can profit
ably employ, but more lose money by not
employing intelligent labor to stimulate
the production of their farms.
The m st successful shepherd of the
future will have his mutton on the mar
ket as regularly and in as good condition
al his wool The same man will make
both products as good as possible.
A writer, whose head is level, SAYS:
ssClover is great aid in cutting down
the cost of bushel of wheat. Wheat
should never be sown without it. 1t
yentilates the soil and tears it to atoms"
Oats come the nearest to the filling of
all REQUISITES of a comp etc food: yet, if
they are crushed, the addition of little
pea meal would be an improvement IN
cases where extra eyertion is demanded.
Winter is the time when young trees
are injured by rabbits, mice, etc. A
mound of earth will keep off the latter,
and wrapping. above the roots with
tarred cotton cloth will discourage the
rabbits.
Young stock, once allowed to run
down, never fully recover from the ef-
fects thereof. OF inferior feed and lice
the first generally brings the second.
Poor feeding is scandalous; vermin
aided it is brutal.
The american Agriculturist remarks:
No animal does as well as it should thHt
is not comfortable. Study the comfort
of all kinds of stock. Regular feeding.
wholesome feed. pure water and COM
Portable lairs are essential.
The american Ponltry Yard recon-
mends cross between the Langshans
and the Partridge Cochins tor good lay
ing qualities and rapid growth. A cross
of tangshans and White Leghorns is
spoken favorably of for the same pur-
poses.
extra food will make cows milk
longer" says the Germantown Iae-
qraph. And yet there is such thing as
surfeiting old Sukie, and throwing her
into a fever. Warm bran mashes and
clover hay run through cutting-bos,
mixed. will promote milk-giving
Horses kept in stables will be all the
better for run in the barnyard an hour
every day, where they will not only ex-
ercise, but roll in the straw and clean
themselves. Stable-kept horses need
some extra grooming, but their improved
condition under this management will
repay it.
In this country it has been demon
strated to the satisfaction of many criti-
cal minds that limestone soil has a
beneficial effect upon animals bred and
reared by physical tasks. A limestone
soil bears on its bosom the finest develop
ment of the human race, physically
speaking.
DO not allow stock, especially work
horses and milch COWS, to drink ice cold
water. To take the chill from water
costs so little that it is hardly to be con-
sidered in the expense account. Some
of the more advanced stockkeepers now
will not allow any of their stock to drink
ice-cold water.
Nothing is quite so good for young
pigs as their mothers milk. When old
enough to wsan take f the best and
put them in separate pen, with abund-
ance of good feed. Keep the remainder
with the SOW one or two weeks longer,
or until they have evened up somewhat
with the others.
Stable manure should be protected
from the weather. Exposed as it often
is i'll the open barn-yard, it is soaked
by the rains and baked hy the sun, and
its own ferme tation burns up that
which the weather does not reach. Barns
with gond ce lars under the stables can
be best arranged for the proper care OF
manure, especially the liquid portion.
Where cellars are not, low POOLS in the
barn-yard should be provided.
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